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About the Role

What will your day look like?

As the Lead – Audit Workforce Planning, you will be accountable for: 

• Establish and maintain a centralised, function-wide view of workforce capacity, demand and utilisation across audits, issue verification and other planned assurance activity.
• Coordinate planning and scheduling of audits and issue verification activity across divisions and portfolios, ensuring work is appropriately staffed and sequenced in line with the approved Internal Audit plan and agreed priorities.
• Support cross-divisional and Group audits by coordinating resource allocation across teams, managing interdependencies and resolving resourcing conflicts.
• Monitor delivery progress against agreed schedules, staffing plans and capacity assumptions, identifying emerging risks, bottlenecks, overruns and underutilisation.
• Provide challenge, insight and escalation to Internal Audit leadership and Audit Directors where delivery is not progressing in line with agreed plans, including transparency over delivery slippage, rescheduling and runovers.
• Coordinate and track changes to the Internal Audit plan, including additions, deferrals, substitutions and other changes with resourcing or capacity implications.
• Assess and communicate the resourcing, capacity and delivery impacts of proposed audit plan changes, maintaining clear reporting and visibility of material plan deviations and delivery risks.
• Maintain authoritative visibility of Internal Audit’s approved workforce establishment, including approved FTE, role types, grades, vacancies and recruitment progress.
• Coordinate and reconcile workforce data across planning, Talent & Culture systems and leadership reporting, identifying discrepancies, deployment constraints and impacts on audit delivery capacity.
• Support governance and consistency of Internal Audit position descriptions and workforce data, identifying structural workforce issues (e.g. persistent vacancies, data integrity gaps, misalignment between approved and actual roles) and escalating implications for audit plan delivery and operating discipline.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you’ll ideally bring the following:

• Workforce planning and resource management expertise: Experience in workforce planning, resourcing, scheduling or capacity management within a complex, multi-portfolio environment, with the ability to maintain visibility across demand, supply and utilisation.
• Delivery oversight and operating discipline: Strong capability in monitoring delivery against plans, identifying resourcing or scheduling risks, and supporting operating discipline through challenge, escalation and transparent reporting.
• Stakeholder engagement and influence: Proven ability to engage effectively with senior leaders and technical specialists, constructively challenging delivery assumptions, negotiating priorities and resolving resourcing conflicts.
• Analytical and data-driven decision making: Strong analytical capability, including the ability to interpret workforce, utilisation and delivery data, identify trends and constraints, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
• Governance and risk awareness: Sound understanding of governance expectations, risk management principles and assurance environments, with the ability to operate credibly within a regulated environment.
• Execution through ambiguity: Ability to operate effectively where systems, data or processes are imperfect, bringing structure, discipline and pragmatism to improve transparency and outcomes.
• Good to have: Experience within Internal Audit, risk, compliance or assurance environments; maintaining workforce establishment visibility; supporting organisational change and uplift activity; exposure to project management, workforce planning, scheduling or audit management systems; or preparing workforce or delivery insights for senior governance forums.
• Qualifications: Tertiary qualification and/or postgraduate qualifications in a relevant discipline such as accounting, audit, operational risk, compliance or related fields.
  
  

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers.

Job Posting End Date

13/07/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)